{"id":185533,"date":"2017-07-17T07:43:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T05:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=185533"},"modified":"2017-07-17T16:22:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T14:22:35","slug":"ispa-shuts-down-gupta-linked-website-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/185533\/ispa-shuts-down-gupta-linked-website-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Gupta-linked website shut down: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Edit:<\/strong> <em>The original article implied that ISPA shut the website down, however the body has since clarified that it does not shut down sites, but rather forwards the notices to site hosts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Internet Service Providers&#8217; Association (ISPA) has issued a take-down notice to the hosts of a website\u00a0linked to the Black First Land First lobby group and the controversial Gupta family for inciting hatred.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2017-07-17-website-with--links-to-guptas-shut-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TimesLive<\/a>, the website\u00a0www.blackopinion.co.za, was taken down after petitioning by\u00a0Martin Peake, a UK citizen who grew up in South Africa. The website reportedly\u00a0featured a number of stories attacking &#8220;white monopoly capital&#8221; and calling the South African National Editors&#8217; Forum members racist.<\/p>\n<p>Upon investigation,\u00a0Peake found that the website had been registered by\u00a0Black First Land First member Yerushka Chetty, with her\u00a0name, number, e-mail address and physical address linked to the site.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday Peake complained to the association as he felt the website was inciting &#8220;racial hatred&#8221; and by Friday the\u00a0association confirmed via e-mail that site was temporarily suspended.<\/p>\n<p>According to ISPA guidelines, it would fully reinstate the website following the removal\u00a0remove of all &#8220;unlawful&#8221; content.<\/p>\n<p>Black First Land First has faced heavy criticism for their attacks on journalists over the past few weeks, culminating in the group facing a court order preventing the harassment\u00a0and intimidation of journalists in the country.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/185525\/sap-appoints-interim-md-amid-investigation-into-gupta-links\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAP appoints interim MD amid investigation into Gupta links<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet Service Providers&#8217; Association (ISPA) has suspended a website\u00a0linked to the Black First Land First lobby group and the controversial Gupta family for inciting hatred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":144009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-185533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185533"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185799,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185533\/revisions\/185799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}